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The Collected Writings (1991-2024) of a Mortal to Death: Jalal Toufic, vol. 1 (which includes my new book, The Unreviewed Writings of a Peerless Thinker, 2020-2022). New York; New Haven: No Place Press (distributed: MIT Press), 2025 (the book is available for purchase on Amazon).
Art Works and Traces. Forthcoming Books, 2024 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Explicit and Implicit Variations on Hitchcock. Lebanon: Beirut Art Center, 2023 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Radical Closure. Singapore: National Gallery Singapore, 2020 (published in conjunction with the Singapore Biennale 2019 Symposium, Right Here, Right Now: Constellating Worlds in the Contemporary) (available for download as a PDF file here)
Postscripts. Stockholm: Moderna Museet; Amsterdam: Roma Publications, 2020 (available for download as a PDF file here; for those who prefer to have a print copy in addition to the e-publication, they can purchase one at Idea Books)
What Was I Thinking? Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2017 (available for download as a PDF file here; the e-book is available for purchase at Apple or Amazon)
The Dancer's Two Bodies. Sharjah, UAE: Sharjah Art Foundation, 2015 (available for download as a PDF file here)
What Were You Thinking? Berlin: Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD, 2011 (available for download as a PDF file here)
The Portrait of the Pubescent Girl: A Rite of Non-Passage. Forthcoming Books, 2011 (available for download as a PDF file here)
What Is the Sum of Recurrently? Istanbul, Turkey: Galeri Nev, 2010 (available for download as a PDF file here) Graziella: The Corrected Edition. Forthcoming Books, 2009 (available for download as a PDF file hereand in lower resolution here)
The Withdrawal of Tradition Past a Surpassing Disaster. Forthcoming Books, 2009 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Undeserving Lebanon. Forthcoming Books, 2007 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Two
or Three Things I’m Dying to Tell You.
Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2005 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Âshûrâ: This Blood Spilled in My Veins.
Beirut, Lebanon: Forthcoming Books, 2005 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Undying Love, or Love Dies.
Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo Press, 2002 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Forthcoming. Berkeley,
CA: Atelos, 2000; 2nd ed., Berlin: e-flux journal-Sternberg Press, 2014 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Over-Sensitivity. Los Angeles: Sun & Moon Press, 1996; 2nd ed., Forthcoming Books, 2009 (available for download as a PDF file here)
(Vampires): An Uneasy Essay on
the Undead in Film. Barrytown, New York: Station
Hill Press, 1993; 2nd ed., Sausalito, CA: The Post-Apollo
Press, 2003 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Distracted. Barrytown,
NY: Station Hill Press, 1991; 2nd ed., Berkeley, CA: Tuumba
Press, 2003 (available for download as a PDF file here)
Film Scripts
— Jouissance in Postwar Beirut (Forthcoming Books, 2014; a searchable PDF file of the film script is available here)
Translated Books
— French:
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Le Retrait de la tradition suite au désastre démesuré, trans. Omar Berrada and Ninon Vinsonneau. Paris: Les Prairies ordinaires, March 2011 (available for download as a PDF file here) |
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Distrait, trans. Guillaume Fayard. Paris: Les Petits matins, April 2011 |
— German:
Booklets
— Reading, Rewriting Poes The Oval PortraitAngelically, part of dOCUMENTA (13)s 100 Notes100 Thoughts, English/German (Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz, 2011)
— Reading, Rewriting Poes The Oval PortraitIn Your Dreams (bilingual edition: English and Arabic) (Beirut, Lebanon: Ashkal Alwan, 2006)
Edited Books Available Online
— Thinking: The Ruin, ed. Matthew Gumpert and Jalal Toufic (Istanbul, Turkey: Rezan Has Museum, 2010) (available for download as a PDF file here)
Essays Available Online
— “The Future of the Creative Image,” in Facing Forward: Art and Theory from a Future Perspective, ed. Christoph Lindner, Margriet Schavemaker, and Hendrik Folkerts (Amsterdam University Press, 2015), 73-80.
— “A Hitherto Unrecognized Apocalyptic Photographer: The Universe,” e-flux Journal, no. 55 (5/2014) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— “If You Prick Us, Do We Not Bleed? No,” E-Flux Journal, no. 50 (12/2013) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— “Middle Eastern Films Before Thy Gaze Returns to Theein Less than 1/24 of a Second,” E-Flux Journal, no. 48 (10/2013) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— “Made without Hands,” Floor, no. 2 (2013)
— “The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Resurrected God!” E-Flux Journal, no. 39 (11/2012) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— “The Resurrected Brother of Mary and Martha: A Human Who Lived then Died!” E-Flux Journal, no. 30 (12/2011) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— “The Contemporary Is Still Forthcoming,” E-flux Journal, no. 28 (10/2011) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— “What Is the Sum of Recurrently?” E-flux Journal, no. 19 (10/2010) (available for download as a PDF file here)
— The Aura: An Approach, in The Symbolic Efficiency of the Frame, catalogue issued in conjunction with the Tirana International Contemporary Art Biennial (T.I.C.A.B.), 18 September–22 October 2009, 34–35
— The Last Men in Beirut, /seconds, no. 9 (2008)
— The Writing Is on the Wall, Museion Journal, no. 6 (June 2008)
— Es Steht Auf Der Mauegeschrieben, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 6 (June 2008)
— La Scrittura è Sul Muro, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 6 (June 2008)
— Bury Me Dead, Museion Journal, no. 5 (April 2008)
— Begrabt Mich Tot, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 5 (April 2008)
— Seppelliscimi Da Morto, trans. Jennifer Scappettone, Museion Journal, no. 5 (April 2008)
— To Think or Not to Think, Museion Journal, no. 4 (March 2008)
— Denken Oder Nicht Denken, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 4 (March 2008)
— Pensare O Non Pensare, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 4 (March 2008)
— Realistic Magic; or, I Never Cared about Magical Realism, Museion Journal, no. 3 (February 2008)
— Realistische Magie Oder: Magischer Realismus Hat Mich Nie Interessiert, trans. Nicola Behrman, Museion Journal, no. 3 (February 2008)
— Magia Realistica, Ovvero Il Realismo Magico Non Mi Ha Mai Interessato, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 3 (February 2008)
— A Hitherto Unrecognized Sublime Photographer: The Universe, /seconds, no. 7 (2007)
— Dying Before Dying; or, Living to Tell the Tale, Museion Journal, no. 1 (Novembre 2007)
— Morire Prima Di Morire; O Vivere Per Raccontare La Storia, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 1 (Novembre 2007)
— Sterben Vor Dem Sterben Oder Weiterleben, Um Zeugnis Zu Geben, trans. Wolfgang Astelbauer, Museion Journal, no. 1 (Novembre 2007)
— Quicker/Slower than Oneself Museion Journal, no. 0 (October 2007)
— Più Veloce/Più Lento Di Se Stesso, trans. Giorgio Maragliano, Museion Journal, no. 0 (October 2007)
— Schneller/Langsamer Als Man Selbst, trans. Wolfgang Astelbauer, Museion Journal, no. 0 (October 2007)
— Black Holes Radiate Lovingly, Lina Saneh Body Studio, 30 May 2007 (available for download as a PDF file here)
— Composites, /seconds, no. 5 (2007)
— I Am the Martyr Sana Yusif Muhaydli, /seconds, no. 5 (2007)
— 'Âshûrâ'; or, Torturous Memory as a Condition of Possibility of an Unconditional Promise, Under Fire (2006)
— Monstrous Units Over the Plateau
Interviews Available Online
— Epilogue (interview with me by Hans Ulrich Obrist), Global Art Forum: Transcripts: 1, ed. Maria Finders (Dubai: IMC, 2007), 311–324
— Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Interview with Jalal Toufic, in Towards a Foreign Likeness Bent: Translation, ed. Jerrold Shiroma, Duration Press, 2005
— Aaron Kunin, Interview with Jalal Toufic, Rain Taxi Online, Fall 2001
"Thinking What's Thought-Provoking!": Book Series Edited by Me and Published by Sharjah Art Foundation
— Jalal Toufic, The Dancer's Two Bodies (2015)
— Matthew Gumpert, The Accident Waiting to Happen (2015)
Edited Journals Available Online
— Qabla an yartadda ilayka Tarfuka: tajarib lubnaniyya fi as-sinama wa-l-vidiyu wa-l-tajhiz (Before Thy Gaze Returns to Thee: Experimental Lebanese Cinema/Video/Installation Works), dossier, Al-Adab (January-February 2001): 1876
http://www.mafhoum.com/press/adab56/adab.htm
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